Self-Storage Conversions

U.K. self-storage operator Big Yellow Group PLC has purchased a former Royal Mail sorting office in Cambridge, England, which it intends to convert to a 55,000-square-foot storage facility. The building on Henley Road closed earlier this year. The acquisition and ...More

Metro Storage LLC, which operates more than 75 self-storage facilities in 11 states, has opened a conversion of the former Sears Parts and Repair Center building in Bannockburn, Ill., as a Metro Self Storage facility. ...More

Representatives of CubeSmart, a self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT), offered the West Roxbury Neighborhood Council an update last week on its proposed conversion project in West Roxbury, Mass. The project would involve converting the existing warehouse at 99 ...More

Update 11/7/14 – The St. Paul, Minn., City Council has rejected Premier Storage’s plan to convert a former Schmidt Brewery warehouse to self-storage. The proposal narrowly passed the city’s zoning committee and full Planning Commission last month. ...More

The city council in Anoka, Minn., last week unanimously approved a conditional-use permit for a self-storage conversion project after turning down several other proposed uses. The property at 500 Bunker Lake Blvd. has been vacant since 2011. ...More

Self-storage developer Elite Stor Capital Partners LLC plans to convert a former bank warehouse in the Baymeadows area of Jacksonville, Fla., to self-storage. Elite Stor purchased the property for $1 million in July. The conversion project, estimated at $1 million, is ...More

Menards, a home-improvement chain with 285 stores in 14 states, has converted one of its empty stores to self-storage in Davenport, Iowa. Menards Self Storage at 110 W. 53rd St. encompasses 120,000 square feet of storage space. It features 450 climate-controlled indoor ...More

Elmwood Racine LLC, owner of the Elmwood Plaza shopping center in Racine, Wis., has applied for a conditional-use permit to convert a sizable portion of the center to self-storage. The project would be conducted in two phases and create about 390 storage units inside 68,000 ...More

U-Haul International Inc. plans to convert a former metal-goods manufacturing plant to self-storage in Bridgeport, Conn. The property at 365 Cherry St. has been rebranded as U-Haul Moving and Storage of Bridgeport. It consists of nine buildings encompassing 146,480 square ...More

Northland Self-Storage in Petoskey, Mich., recently acquired an adjacent building, which it plans to convert to self-storage. A portion of the former Hammond Equipment building on Charlevoix Avenue will be converted into 20 to30 storage units, some of which will be ...More